-Window Managers and Desktop Environments are the primary user interfaces into the X Window System.
A window manager is a program that controls the appearance of windows and provides the means by which the user can interact with them. A Desktop Environment provides a more complete interface to the operating system, and provides a range of integrated utilities and applications.

-The Desktop Environments available for Linux are GNOME, KDE, and XFce.

Choosing a Window Manager or Desktop Environment is highly subjective. The choice depends on the look and feel of the packages, the resources (RAM, disk space) required, and the utilities included. One web site that provides a very good summary of what is available, screenshots, and their respective features is Window Managers for X.

i have installed - Window Manager
* Fluxbox-1.1.1

everything is fine,its working great
so
i want xfce desktop environment:
i cant find out instructions for xfce to install
so what to do?????

cheese1343

06-08-2011 02:24 AM

http://archive.xfce.org/xfce/4.8/ would be a good place to start.
If you are doing LFS i suppose you are compiling everything from scratch, so just do the same with xfce.

Hi,
I never actually did lfs, but from experience with installing KDE from source on slackware 13.1 i suppose you should download the whole directories on the site, with wget or any other method, then compile just like any other software (untar, configure, make, make install).
As for xinitrc, i think it would go something like this:

!/bin/sh

~/.xinitrc

exec startfluxbox
exec startxfce4
exec xfce4-session

Hope that helps =)

druuna

06-08-2011 05:17 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by janakiramulu
(Post 4379588)

can any one provide solutions to below q:
i have installed - Window Managers
* Fluxbox-1.1.1

hi druuna thanks for reply and also information
but in my case i have not installed git?
how to get this???

You yourself provided a URL to the xfce sources, use that. No need to use git.

janakiramulu

06-08-2011 01:37 PM

hi druuna
k
one small thing
1) how can i see 'file manager' in my present case:right now i am using fluxfox only to interact with the system
i cant create,delete dir ,and check size of dir by manually[means with mouse], with file manager we can right??
everything am using coammands via xterm/terminator
2)when the system power on/start after entering root, and password why its not loading x window directly:
everytime i am doing:to start x window by manually :startx only
[i.e root[~]#startx]

1) how can i see 'file manager' in my present case:right now i am using fluxfox only to interact with the system i cant create,delete dir ,and check size of dir by manually[means with mouse], with file manager we can right?? everything am using coammands via xterm/terminator

I'm not that familiar with fluxbox and I never use a file manager myself, so I cannot point you to "the" file manager that comes with fluxbox (I even doubt if one is present). When building from source you should feel comfortable with the command line.

Quote:

2)when the system power on/start after entering root, and password why its not loading x window directly:
everytime i am doing:to start x window by manually :startx only
[i.e root[~]#startx]

if we do installation as in loop[i have tried but no success] for them ,we can install them all at a time and shorty
plz provide solutions

MTK358

06-09-2011 07:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by druuna
(Post 4380610)

I'm not that familiar with fluxbox and I never use a file manager myself, so I cannot point you to "the" file manager that comes with fluxbox (I even doubt if one is present). When building from source you should feel comfortable with the command line.

Fluxbox is a window manager, not a group of desktop apps like KDE or GNOME. So it doesn't have a file manager.

druuna

06-09-2011 08:57 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by janakiramulu
(Post 4380827)

In /etc/profile:
i have like below:
# Set the initial PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig

check this below instructions is this right,do any changes require
then i will follow to install xfce:

Compiling and installingstep4) root[/sources/4.8]# here i have all the tarballs,and i need to unpack each of them . Inside each package directory i should run the following command:
./configure --prefix=${PREFIX} && make && make install

is this fine????
[why i am keep on asking this means i am afraiding to give to try multiple times without following good instruction.because its good to follow instructions instead of something will go wrong-as my way]